Word: backlashers
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...that contest, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks appealed to the lower middle class Irish backlash sentiment. The last poll before that election revealed an unusually high undecided vote of 25 per cent. Since White held a two to one lead, the undecided should have split two to one for him, but Mrs. Hicks captured 23 per cent of this vote to 2 per cent for White...
...number of candidates who have stood fast both against the war and against domestic backlash is small, their caliber is unusually high. Paul O'Dwyer (N.Y.), William G. Clark (Ill.), Harold Hughes (Iowa), John Gilligan (Ohio) and Alan Cranston (Calif.) are five exceptional challengers who have done much to free their party from the likes of Mayor Daley and President Johnson. Similarly Abraham Ribicoff (Conn.) and George McGovern (S.D.) distinguished themselves at the Democratic Convention, while Ernest Gruening (Alaska), Gaylord Nelson (Wisc.), and Franch Church (Idaho) have performed yeoman service inside the Senate...
Even before the white backlash set in, a number of other factors had conspired to make the Southern "racial situation" less visible than it had been in the '50's. After the civil rights acts passed in the early '60's, most Northern whites breathed a sigh of moral relief. Most of the tangible evidences of bigotry were gone: federal inspectors found few "Colored" drinking fountains left. The "White Only" posters were reluctantly removed from the train stations and busses; the black names made their way onto the voting lists; and whites and blacks settled down to the teeth-gritting...
...most Southern Negroes soon realized that these tentative victories were in reality a setback. The evening TV news report had been one of the civil rights movement's primary weapons, but now much of its punch was gone. There were no more marches, few boycotts, little redneck backlash. The white Northern conscience turned to other things. Students began to work against the war; white liberals set to work in the ghettos. With no tangible goblins to fight, the Southern Negroes struggled for ways to keep the nation's support mobilized...
...same way. French women, who vote first and foremost for stability, again turned out in force to cast their ballots for the general's men. The conservatives who have something to conserve-big businessmen, the landowners, investors-remained true Gaullists. De Gaulle's forces picked up backlash support from farmers, small businessmen and the professional class, nearly all of whom reacted against the riots and strikes...